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Imbolc is here

Imbolc is a pagan festival held to mark the halfway point between the winter solstice and the spring equinox.

There has been a lot of rain; there is standing water wherever you look; it has been a tad damp underfoot.

Is it possible to ‘tread air’? If it is, then the kestrel has it down to an art.

Each time the floodwaters arrive on the meadows, it is like a world transformed.

Very rarely does flora make the headlines but the felling of a tree in Northumberland has been the main topic of conversation across the land.

This month, my wanderings have taken me up and down the Valley Trail.

Let’s get behind initiatives that look to protect and nurture our natural world.

Only a generation ago there were so many rabbits they were seen as pests but these days you don’t see many at all.

Throughout May the countryside is brimming with cow parsley flowers foaming on tall stalks along roadsides and shady woodland paths.

An encounter with a nightingale is a reminder why this bird is regarded as the songster above all others.